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Every Language Fixes Something - Visualizing PG's essay

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7 pointsColinWright4 comments

On of your graphs is labeled with the "JavaScript" snip from the current page version, the other one from the older revision of the page: https://web.archive.org/web/20020210063149/http://paulgraham...

And how is "Nemerle" relevant? Never heard about this one, it's sad as languages like PHP are not listed, even as there a discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817369

  > One of your graphs is labelled with the "JavaScript"
  > snip from the current page version, the other one
  > from the older revision of the page ...

Noted - thanks. The second is substantially revised, taking into account many comments made by others, and including many more languages. Not sure I'm going to change it/them now, as it would take a while to find the DOT source, edit it, etc., and it was only ever intended as a bit of fun. People ended up taking it so seriously, it caught me by surprise.

Very nice!

Correction: Smalltalk to Objective-C is not "needs C syntax". Objetive-C's OO syntax is actually Smalltalk's. The two reasons are "needs C interoperability" and "needs performance".

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